Michael Brookes
Game Director
That's true for the most part. There are a few extra galactic clusters in the game, although I'm not sure if you could reach them.
Michael
So I visited a pulsar...
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That's true for the most part. There are a few extra galactic clusters in the game, although I'm not sure if you could reach them.
Michael
You may not be able to get there, but you can surely see them.
Did someone say...planet surfaces...!?!?!
Exactly how I felt reading that post too lol
Soooo......the next alpha test?
Michael Brookes
Game Director
And they have lovely views of the galaxy when you're there
Michael
There's only one possible response to that: "Pictures or it didn't happen"
And they have lovely views of the galaxy when you're there
Michael
oh, You are such a tease.
ollobrains
Banned
How about fixing the influence system, several systems are stuck with a faction expanding that ae stuck at 9%, micehal instead of looking at pulsars are u fixing an important and broken gameplay feature
And they have lovely views of the galaxy when you're there
Michael
Well now you're just being a big tease!
I think we know what the next "Peek of the Week" should be! We haven't had any of those in quite a while, so shouldn't you take a nice pic of the Milky Way for us to make up for that?
Pleeeeeaaaseeee???? 
Edit: This is how the pulsar sounded
[video=youtube;ZS695yIbfbE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS695yIbfbE[/video]
For Gods sake, man, how can you not link to the original version? If Vangelis heard that he'd have a stroke!
[video=youtube;8UwGl0Yk_jU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UwGl0Yk_jU[/video]
ollobrains
Banned
For Gods sake, man, how can you not link to the original version? If Vangelis heard that he'd have a stroke!
[/QUOTE[video=youtube;8UwGl0Yk_jU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UwGl0Yk_jU[/video]
Fix pulsars, and if theres any factionals in those systems fix tose to
And they have lovely views of the galaxy when you're there
Michael
Speaking of lovely views, one of the things I was interested in seeing in the game was comets, and prior to release there was a statement that "comets are already in the game, you just can't see them yet." Are we going to be able to see them sometime soon?
Here's a reasonably dumb question, as far as nerd questions: might there be any chance that the Oort Cloud be included? It would be pretty awesome to have a sphere surrounding the Sol system that includes a furious number of comets trapped in orbit (I grant you that the comets are approximately the distance of the sun to Saturn away from each other, but hey... that'd still be neat!)
@ollobrains
There are obviously separate teams and individuals that specialize in certain aspects of the game, and I am actually much more interested in a physically active and interesting space exploration experience rather than faction influence unless there is a SERIOUS expansion to the game in regards to political activity.
@Leslie
While including the Oort Cloud, and similar structures in other star systems, would provide a more accurate galaxy the massive distances between individual objects in an area the size of the Oort Cloud would likely make the increased number of planetesimals rather difficult to find. But it could make for some interesting mining possibilities. Of course, in an ideal simulation, one could even offer a contract to tow a comet into a planetary orbit in exchange for a HUGE fee. Or, on the evil side, tow a comet INTO a planet for a big fee(and a warrant for Crimes Against Humanity).
There are obviously separate teams and individuals that specialize in certain aspects of the game, and I am actually much more interested in a physically active and interesting space exploration experience rather than faction influence unless there is a SERIOUS expansion to the game in regards to political activity.
@Leslie
While including the Oort Cloud, and similar structures in other star systems, would provide a more accurate galaxy the massive distances between individual objects in an area the size of the Oort Cloud would likely make the increased number of planetesimals rather difficult to find. But it could make for some interesting mining possibilities. Of course, in an ideal simulation, one could even offer a contract to tow a comet into a planetary orbit in exchange for a HUGE fee. Or, on the evil side, tow a comet INTO a planet for a big fee(and a warrant for Crimes Against Humanity).
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Hi Michael,
Is FDEV by any chance still giving any consideration to the old debate about hyperspace drop distance from stars? As it stands we are pretty much dropping at distances almost linearly proportional to the star size which makes most of them look very similar in size every time (even Canis Majoris) when you arrive.
Is there any chance that the hyperspace drop distance could be tweaked to be not as linear as it looks so to help with the "wow" factor? I.e. something like:
Just replace "Slope" with size/radius of star and "Angle measurement" with hyperspace drop out distance from surface of said star to get the gist of it (no need to intersect at zero etc). Presume there are technical / code limitations (texture resolution, supercruise and gravitational code?) for it, but hey.
I'd love to see this changed, too!
Oh I see what you mean, fair enough.